Molecular Chirality Award Background
The award is instituted by the Molecular
Chirality Research Organization (MCRO)* in 1999, to honour those
internationally recognized scientists who have made a distinguished contribution
in the field of molecular chirality. The bronze statue (hand in art) is
presented at the Symposium on Molecular Chirality.
* The Molecular Chirality
Research Organization (MCRO) was founded by the organizing committee
of the Symposium on Molecular Chirality. The Symposium was organized
to integrate knowledge recently developed by using novel technologies,
in particular chromatographic methods, for optical resolution and to exploit
new functions of chiral molecules. The meeting was initiated in 1992 in
Tokyo by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan to promote progress in the
pharmaceutical sciences dealing with chiral drugs. It was held under the
auspices of the chemical society of Japan and aix additional scientific
societies of Japan.